How many Butts?

[Jozie & Me]

To feed 50 adults?

9lbs per butt approx

[santeeswamper]

What else u cooking? I'd cook 3 but 4 to be sure

[reeltight]

Figure 1/2lb per person maybe a touch more after calculating trimming waste.

[jwterry3]

I did 6 for 76 folks (70% adults) this weekend...we had 1 extra

[fuzzy]

5. You will have some left over. If there is some left, you know everyone got enough to eat. If there is none left, you don't know if everyone got enough.

[Highstrung]

Butts

[SaltMuck]

1 per 10 peeps

[SCHUNTINFANATIC]

4 if you don't want much left, 5 of you want leftovers.

[sc_slim]

If they start eating too much, just add more red pepper.

[GobblerHntr]

I'll take any leftovers

[ProvidenceSwamper]

Cook extra and freeze it in portion bags you can heat up when you want something easy.

[Glenn]

Catering rule of thumb is 1/3-1/2 pound of meat per person.

So 30-45 lbs of cooked meat.

with a 9 pound butt I figure you're looking at 7.5 lbs of cooked meat.

6 orta do it. I'd do 7 just to be safe.